Embroidery Hair Tutorial

Text version: Embroidery Hair Tutorial

For plushie hair, using embroidery instead of fabric gives your plushie a very natural, realistic feel to it. This is especially great if you can combine colors. I used this for human plushie hair and my horse plushie, shown below:



Materials:
• Scissors
• Embroidery thread spool. You can either chose getting:
o 1 solid color
o 2 colors. You can try a darker/lighter shade, or an initial color with a highlight color. The example we use is an initial color plus highlight combination.
• An open, unfinished seam you want to put the embroidery in.

Tutorial:
1. Wrap the thread around in a loop until it’s as thick as you want the hair. Make the length of the loop 2 times as long as you want the hair to drape on the body. Repeat for the second embroidery thread. To the right is how it should look like:

2. Tie a knot in the middle.

3. Cut the end loops together.

4. Fold this in half so that all the cut ends are on one side.

5. Position the knot inside the plushie, through the open seam.

6. Sew the seam, with the knot underneath. As you finish this seam, make sure the embroidery thread/hair is spread out along the seam so it does not bunch up in a spot.

7. Send me a link of what you’ve made, or send me comments if I’m unclear with anything.


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Tools Used: Word, Paint.net, and the snipping tool on Windows 7